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WHO urged to make respirator masks the standard for workers in “all healthcare settings”
(Published 09 January 2026)

"Doctors, scientists, and public health experts have urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend that healthcare workers wear respirators “in every encounter in all healthcare settings.”

The letter—seen by The BMJ—calls for WHO to update its infection prevention and control guidance to recommend that staff wear respirators such as N95, FFP2/3, and elastomeric masks as standard practice and “not just during outbreaks or high risk procedures.”

It argues that not doing so is “scientifically indefensible” and “dangerous,” as it would continue to expose staff and patients to “preventable and potentially even lethal risk” from pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.

Around 50 experts—including Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford—have endorsed the letter."

LINK:
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s52.full

COMMENT:
Holy Moly! Damn Right! That's what Ive been saying all along... It is “scientifically indefensible” and “dangerous" for people in the healthcare business not to wear  masks! ,” Now we are talking! Some real Doctors, scientists, and public health experts just wrote you a letter local doctor ... Now read that letter Doctors and Nurses!!!

Wear a Mask,
The Masked Man

P.S. Got some big doctors, scientists, and public health experts on my side now that just signed their name to something significant that I believe in; namely: MASKING!  Feels good! I believe in science man.I believe in microscopic entities and I believe in microscopes, stethoscopes and masks! I believe in the mask! Think like a real scientist and wear mask! I learned from the microscope..

...we had a a microscope at grandma's house and even as a child I was taught how to see things through the microscope ..the microscope has taught me to believe in  things I can't see. Being able to use a microscope and see germs and particles is what  separates the real scientists from the quacks! Its one of the reasons I mask...

... Even as I child I knew to mask so as not to breathe onto and fog up the microscope plate and  the specimen I was studying. You can't see a thing through a microscope if you breathe hot air on your specimen or patient. You'll contaminate the microscope slide if you breathe hot air or vapor on your specimen. You don't want to study your own germs or particles by accident you want to study theirs and that's why we mask so as to keep the microscopic entities separate from one another so we can get a good reading.

That's also the whole point of diagnosing and using tests on a patient.. a patient comes up you with a mysterious illness or something wrong and automatically you don't wanna breathe on the patient and you don't want the patient breathing on you or anyone else.. you wear a mask and administer tests without breathing on or contaminating the test so you can get a good reading meanwhile nobody exchanges undetermined particles that you are studying.. that's the whole key to being a a good doctor.. the key is to believe in what you can't see and don't contaminate or mix particles you are studying so you can get a good reading
So we wear masks and use disinfectants on surfaces  and move the air with air circulating apparatuses all so our tests are accurate and we can study the right  germs in the lab.

Got to wear masks so you can practice applied science correctly and professionally and also we must wear masks because it is in a code of ethics for doctors to do everything they can to prevent disease to begin with. That's in the Hippocratic oath. Its unethical for a doctor to make someone ill or allow people to make each other ill under their practice, care, or roof.

I'm sick of these maskless pseudo doctors pretending they can just look at somebody and touch them and breathe on them and smile with them and act like they know everything.. Gotta be professional wear a mask use medical apparatus's and tests and not breathe on your patients and vice versa .. gotta assume they might even have a serious contagious disease .. gotta treat people and microscopic entities with respect and use your microscope, tests and masks responsibly! and keep your tools clean and disinfect your tools and medical apparatuses  you are about to use in front of your patients.. take pride in your precautions and medical tools!

You can only see certain things through a microscope and really an electron microscope so you better believe in the mask if you believe in microscopes! If you are a doctor and you don't believe in microscopes and masks then you are in the wrong business. You can't see covid, TB, Monkey Pox, Influenza etc... yeah there are symptoms but it's all about airborne particles you can't see... gotta wear a mask when working around and studying germs and illnesses and that's all there is to it.